XPost: alt.genealogy, england.genealogy.misc, free.uk.genealogy   
   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   knuttle wrote on 2/09/2018 2:45 AM:   
   > On 9/1/2018 11:44 AM, Ruth Wilson wrote:   
   >> On 31/08/2018 14:49, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
   >>> On 31-Aug-18 12:09 PM, knuttle wrote:   
   >>>> Unfortunately this error still appears in some online trees, and   
   >>>> their owner seem un interested in correcting their mistake.   
   >>>   
   >>> I often wonder why so many people publish their trees but seem   
   >>> totally uninterested in accuracy or in making contact with possible   
   >>> relatives.   
   >>>   
   >>> I often contact people along the lines of "I see you have Joe Bloggs   
   >>> on your tree, who is my nth cousin n x removed.  Can you tell me what   
   >>> your Source is for ... as the information I have found suggests ...   
   >>> I am happy to share with you", but only very rarely do I get any   
   >>> response.   
   >>>   
   >> I once contacted someone who had linked to my line through one of my   
   >> gt-grandmother's brothers as an emigrant to America. As I don't know   
   >> what happened to him in later life, it could well be him, although he   
   >> then appeared with a middle name (which he could have adopted in   
   >> adulthood for any number of reasons).   
   >> When I asked the contributor how she "knew" this was the right John   
   >> Palmer, she replied that John Palmer was the son of John and Isabella   
   >> born in Cumberland ... basically repeating the information in the   
   >> tree. No mention of any sources - family bible, marriage certificate,   
   >> immigration documentation, etc. Grrrr!   
   >> I didn't continue the conversation!   
   >> Ruth   
   > Don't be so quick to give up on this information.   
   >   
   > In a side family I found a person of the right age with his parents. And   
   > then found a person with a different name in the same area, of same age,   
   > and a couple of years later married to the my person. I found this   
   > couple in later documentation and the spouses age was as the person   
   > living with his parents.   
   >   
   > I found that there was an online tree with both my person and a person   
   > with first and middle names that I thought was two people. ie John and   
   > George vs John George.   
   >   
   > When I asked the owner he said the only documentation was the fact that   
   > he knew that in the family the person had been referred to by both   
   > names.   I don't know how you documented this type of situation.   
   >   
   > After a frustrating series of emails I gave up, and continued working on   
   > my family.  A day or two later I was working on the family I grew up in,   
   > and realized I had a similar situation.  All my life, I had heard my   
   > uncle referred to by both his first or middle names depending on the   
   > situation.   
   >   
   > After much searching I found a family bible that listed the birth   
   > information of the siblings in that family.  In that bible his birth   
   > records listed both names.  I copies the bible pages for my records and   
   > sort of forgave the tree owner that caused me the frustration.   
   >   
   I had a similar situation with one of my Brothers-in-law.   
      
   He worked as part of a small team in a Laboratory and he was going to be   
   the third Allan in the team so he went by his second name, Ross.   
      
   I knew Ross for about ten years before I found out his name was Allan Ross!!   
      
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